Being fat can fry up your chances of becoming a dad.Byline: ANI Wellington, Oct 24 (ANI): An Australian research has shown that overweight men are less likely to father children. While it has been known for some time that obesity reduces the chances of a female conceiving, this is understood to be the first study to show the effects of a male's weight. The study, which involved more than 300 couples, showed that as a man's weight increased, his chances of fathering a child decreased. "Clinical pregnancy rates were significantly reduced as paternal PATERNAL. That which belongs to the father or comes from him: as, paternal power, paternal relation, paternal estate, paternal line. Vide Line. body mass index increased," stuff.co.nz quoted Dr Hassan Bakos, of the University of Adelaide Its main campus is located on the cultural boulevard of North Terrace in the city-centre alongside prominent institutions such as the Art Gallery of South Australia, the South Australian Museum and the State Library of South Australia. , as saying. "Clearly. . . lifestyle choices should not be confined to the female partner when a couple is striving to achieve their dream of having a healthy baby," Dr Bakos added. Couples participating in the study were either undergoing IVF IVF in vitro fertilization. IVF abbr. in vitro fertilization IVF 1 In vitro fertilization, see there 2. Intravascular fluid treatment or an alternative sperm injection procedure, and almost 80 per cent of the men involved were either overweight or obese. Dr Bakos said that the man's weight was found to have no bearing on the earliest phases of the fertilised embryos that were produced. "However, by day four or five of the embryo cell division - when paternal genetic influence comes into play - there was evidence of impaired development," he said. "Current studies in our laboratory suggest that DNA DNA: see nucleic acid. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. damage and oxidative stress oxidative stress, n an imbalance of the prooxidant antioxidant ratio in which too few antioxidants are produced or ingested or too many oxidizing agents are produced. may be involved," he added. IVF processes involve the selection of the most viable fertilised embryos for implantation implantation /im·plan·ta·tion/ (im?plan-ta´shun) 1. attachment of the blastocyst to the epithelial lining of the uterus, its penetration through the epithelium, and, in humans, its embedding in the stratum compactum of the in the womb. Dr Michelle Lane, from the Adelaide IVF clinic, where the study was conducted, said it provided clear evidence of the vital role a man's weight played for fertility. "A healthy weight for women undergoing assisted conception improves clinical pregnancy rates. However, the effects of male obesity on pregnancy outcomes has until now not been so clear," said Dr Lane, scientific director at Repromed. The research results are to be presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Fertility Society of Australia, which gets under way in Perth next week. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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